Yeah I've heard that they can be. I guess I have to keep in mind that she's only a little older than half a year. She's so cute though, she likes to flop down completely flat on the ground and stretch her neck to peek out of the tank. We call it "SNEK"-ing because all you see is her little head and long neck :> She's such a wee grump. She hasn't been eating for the past few days so I'm gonna try to get some silkworms for her once they're back in stock. It helped the last time she wasn't eating after all!
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Yeah I've heard that they can be. I guess I have to keep in mind that she's only a little older than half a year. She's so cute though, she likes to flop down completely flat on the ground and stretch her neck to peek out of the tank. We call it "SNEK"-ing because all you see is her little head and long neck :> She's such a wee grump. She hasn't been eating for the past few days so I'm gonna try to get some silkworms for her once they're back in stock. It helped the last time she wasn't eating after all!
Hehe she is a cute little girl :> If I only hold her when I'm getting her out of the tank and let her sit on my shoulder while I go about the house, she is perfectly fine. No freak outs. She freaks if she's in hands for too long or if we have to pick her up when she, for example, tries to walk off of the bed.
The silly little girl has barely eaten in two weeks but she's not losing weight so I guess perhaps she's just upset about winter, even though her temps are fine and she's got 12 hours of daylight. I got some frozen teensy tiny pinkies on a whim and although she licked it an incredible amount, she didn't want to eat it. Donut didn't want it either. I'm pretty sure that if the pinkies were alive, they would both have eaten them happily. I think that both of them will be better off once we get an apartment and move, since ATM we're in the bedroom along with them doing stuff from about midday to 2-3 AM
I've ordered silkworms for her again, hoping they can break her fast once more but the weather is crap so I don't know when they can be shipped :/
I've ordered silkworms for her again, hoping they can break her fast once more but the weather is crap so I don't know when they can be shipped :/
She's 8 months old and yeah, female. She started refusing anything but mealworms about a month ago and now she's stopped eating them as well.
She poops fine, sheds fine, her temps are perfect, she drinks water, she's behaving completely normal. SIGH
[EDIT] I have just ordered an infrared thermometer so I can see if my temperatures are accurate
She poops fine, sheds fine, her temps are perfect, she drinks water, she's behaving completely normal. SIGH
[EDIT] I have just ordered an infrared thermometer so I can see if my temperatures are accurate
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Yeah we breed dubias as our staple but she refuses them as well. In the past month I've tried mealworms, mealworm beetles, mealworm pupae, silkworms, superworms, dubias, crickets, locusts, pinkies (though they were frozen) and waxworms (she's never liked waxworms though). She likes butterworms but they're out of season and neither of them like calciworms. She barely even looks at the food, and when she does, she quickly loses interest after a lick or two. We never get the "food!-face" with her anymore.
We weren't too worried since she wasn't losing weight but the 3 gram weight loss has been in this last week :/